Cookie information for visitors to our website

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

How do we use cookies?

Cookies provide information about individuals’ usage of the website, which may identify you as the same individual even if we do not know your name, we can identify location, IP address and device information. As such, we make sure you have a choice about the cookies that are placed on your device for our statistical purposes by Google Analytics, which help us to understand more about the ways in which people use our website. We would appreciate it if you opt-in to accept these cookies when the website asks you, as it will help us to improve it over time. 

What cookies do we use?

We use first-party cookies (cookies set by PACT) and third-party cookies (cookies set by other providers, e.g. analytics providers such as Google).  Details of the cookies in use are available below:

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. No consent is required for Necessary cookies.

Cookie nameDurationCategoryDescription
PHPSESSIDsessionNecessary
This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary1 yearNecessarySet by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional 1 year NecessaryThe cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance1 yearNecessarySet by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Performance”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics1 year Necessary Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement1 year Necessary Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others1 year Necessary Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Others”.

Non-essential cookies

Non-essential cookies have a range of functions, from allowing the website owner to understand how users are moving around and using their website (statistical) to third-party cookies which look to build a profile of individuals that can inform their online marketing decisions (marketing). Non-essential cookies require a user to ‘opt-in’ to accept the cookie onto their device.

Cookie nameDurationCategoryDescription
YSCSessionAdvertisementYSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE5 months 27 daysAdvertisementA cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
yt-remote-device-idNeverAdvertisementYouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt-remote-connected-devices Never AdvertisementYouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt.innertube::requests Never AdvertisementThis cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt.innertube::nextId Never AdvertisementThis cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
tk_or5 yearsAnalyticsThe tk_or is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack.
tk_r3d3 daysAnalyticsJetPack installs this cookie to collect internal metrics for user activity and in turn improve user experience.
tk_lr1 yearAnalyticsThe tk_lr is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behaviour for Jetpack.
CONSENT2 yearsAnalyticsYouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data.
tk_tcsessionOthersNo description available.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.